Understanding Starbucks

Megan McArdle doesn't. Their target audience are people with the right combination of ignorance and insecurity to imagine that, because this unpleasantly charred stuff is different, it must be somehow better.

My House Is Too Big

And too new: it's part of the unfortunate pattern of rising real wealth, which has increased the supply of goods like homes. [The word good here is itself a kind of hint...] Fortunately, Holman Jenkins offers a solution. Let them eat cake, and live in trailer parks: that's where they belong anyway.

[Via Steve Sailer.]

How To Safeguard Your Privacy

I don't know if people have really recognized that the number of output values in this tacky test is not much smaller than the number of possible input combinations; and thus all their inputs, including but not limited to penis size, can be backed out with fair accuracy.

Aren't computers great?